College of Arts and Sciences

Education:

• PhD, Sociology, Arizona State University, 2003
• MA, Sociology, Arizona State University
• BS, Sociology, Portland State University

Curriculum Vitae:

Research Interests:

• Environmental Sociology
• Environmental inequality and injustice
• Political economy of energy and environment
• Labor and environment
• Plastics in society

Bio:

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She teaches sociology courses on environmental justice, environmental movements, disasters, and social class inequality. She is the first person in her family to graduate from college.

Selected Publications:

Books

• Sicotte, Diane. 2016. From Workshop to Waste Magnet: Environmental Inequality in the Philadelphia Region (Rutgers University Press).

Articles

• Diane Sicotte, Kelly Joyce and Arielle Hesse. 2022. “Energy Transition: Necessary, Welcome or Dreaded? Unionized U.S. Energy Workers Speak.” Energy Research & Social Science 88: 102511. Published Open Access: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214629622000184
• Diane Sicotte. 2021. “From Western Pennsylvania to the World: Environmental Injustice and the Ethane-to-Plastics Global Production Network,” in Laurent, Eloi (Ed.) Routledge Handbook of the Political Economy of the Environment, pp. 159-170.
• Diane Sicotte and Jessica Seamon. 2021. “Solving the Plastics Problem: Moving the U.S. from Recycling to Reduction.” Society and Natural Resources, 34, 3: 393-402.
• Diane Sicotte. 2020. “From Cheap Ethane to a Plastic Planet: Regulating an Industrial Global Production Network.” Energy Research & Social Science, 66: 101479.
• Diane Sicotte and Robert J. Brulle. 2018. “Environmental Justice and Social Movement Theory,” in Handbook of Environmental Justice, edited by Ryan Holifield, Jayajit Chakraborty and Gordon Walker, pp. 25-36. London and New York: Routledge Press.
• Diane Sicotte and Kelly Joyce. 2017. “Not a ‘Petro Metro:’ Challenging Fossil Fuel Expansion.” Environmental Sociology, 3, 4: 337-347.